{"id":160,"date":"2012-04-16T23:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redbreardsmusings.wordpress.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2019-10-27T02:28:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:28:27","slug":"dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talesofalexander.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m making up for missing&#8230; not nearly enough but I&#8217;m trying.<br \/>\nThis links back into Sakura Con and my experiences there. I&#8217;m starting to realize with a sense of impending terror that I&#8217;m about to hit the adult world. I&#8217;m 19 and only a handful of credits short of being a senior in University, i&#8217;ve got probably a year and a half left in my major (probably) and a decent job tho I spend my money far too much. So all of this begs one question: Where the hell am I going with my life?<br \/>\nI know I want to be a game designer because i love the idea of writing and building worlds and design games is a blast. I already bailed on my CSS ideas because I simply couldn&#8217;t think the right way. I&#8217;ve got 2 games on the burner, tho one is a very slow burn since I be a slow writer sometimes. i&#8217;ve got my novel rewrite underway and I final picked its sequel back up for for some TLC. Honestly I surprised myself with how good of a writer I am.<\/p>\n<p>Any way, back to my dreams. I already talked in heroes about how I just want to be able to enjoy my job and support a family. A family of my own, kids of my own with a woman I love is a dream of all dreams for me. Right there that is who I want to be, the loving husband and father who can support his family comfortably and still love his work. I&#8217;ve seen how my dad doesn&#8217;t like his work at times and what it does to him and it sucks. My other dreams? I want to have my novel be popular enough that I can find fan art of it on Artist&#8217;s Alley at Sakura con. I want to have gritty and disturbing fan fic on the internet because that means I have loyal fans. I want to have enough clout that I can take on the Penny Arcade guys in Ping Pong and have a booth on the PAX floor. Really, it would be the biggest honour to see a character of mine lovingly rendered by a fan. I would never get mad at them for selling it, as long as they werent claiming it as their own, hell I&#8217;d probably buy one myself. I want to have my kids grow up in a house with a backyard somewhere in the Seattle area and I want the house have the art of years of conventions hanging, characters who have become retro will watch over my kids as they play in the hall ways. These aren&#8217;t simple things, but yet they really are. I don&#8217;t want a million bucks, though i wouldn&#8217;t turn the money down. Fame I want but not a large scale, just some people who love my stories as much as me and have read them, and I want to know the PA guys because what they&#8217;ve done in their lives is beyond inspirational. I want to have a family to be a part of, both of friends and immediate.I don&#8217;t need to shoot for the moon because my life is here, on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m making up for missing&#8230; not nearly enough but I&#8217;m trying. This links back into Sakura Con and my experiences there. 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